Day 56 - Monday 14th November 2005

About two hours drive from Palenque are three natural water feaures. These are known as Agua Azul (Blue Water), Agua Clara (Clear Water) and Misol Ha (No idea). I joined a tour to visit all three in a day. Misol Ha was first stop. Apparently this waterfall was used as a backdrop in the film Predator but I couldn’t remember which bit. Perhaps someone could enlighten me.

After spending 30 minutes walking behind the falls and climbing up into a cave, we moved onto the second stop, Agua Clara. Unfortunately it had been raining and the river had swelled, so the normaly clear waters were in fact a nice shade of brown.

After milling around at Agua Brown for a while we finally drove the hour to the main attraction, Agua Azul. This is a section of river containing over 50 individiual waterfalls and it certainly made up for the ordinariness of Agua Brown.

The tour guide gave us three hours at the falls to wander around, take some photos, have some lunch & perhaps buy some souveniers. I did them all except buy souveniers. There was also the opportunity to go for a swim near the falls, which I didn’t pass up. I donned my swimming shorts and jumped right in. The current is immensely strong and the signs stressed how dangerous it was to swim close to the falls. I decided to ignore this advice……(only joking Mum). I stuck to the safe places a little downstream from the main falls until it was time to jump back on the tourbus and get back into Palenque, just in time for James & I to board an overnight bus bound for Tulum on the Yucatan for some much needed beach time.